This week in history

March 14: 1874. A one-day census was conducted in Kyiv.

1923. By decision of the Council of Ambassadors in Paris, Eastern Galicia was assigned to Poland.

March 15: 1919. The All-Ukrainian Council of Arts resolved to nationalize Kyiv theaters. 1939. Independent Carpatho-Ukraine emerged.

March 16: 1910. The first issue of the newspaper Ukrayinsky holos (Ukrainian Voice) came out in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

1990. The restored Taras Shevchenko Scholarly Society began its first session in Lviv.

March 17: 1917. The Ukrainian Central Rada, which would evolve into Ukraine’s first national government, began its work.

1926. A monument to Taras Shevchenko, executed by sculptor Ivan Kavaleridze, was unveiled in Poltava.

March 18: 1913. The Ukrainian Sichovi Striltsi (riflemen) military organization was formed in Lviv on the basis of the Sich and Sokoly (Falcons) athletic groups.

1917. A Ukrainian gymnasium (high school) was opened for the first time in Kyiv.

March 19: 1918. The student volunteers killed near Kruty were reburied.

1995. A treaty on cooperation between Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates was signed in Abu-Dhabi.

March 20: 1895. The newspaper Hromadsky holos (Community Voice) began publication in Lviv.

1944. In the course of the Proskuriv-Chernivtsy operation, the troops of the First Ukrainian Front took Vinnytsia and crossed the South Buh River.